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Presently Ghek pushed aside a door that opened froht flooding the walled court where the headless rykors lay beside their feeding-troughs She saw the perfect bodies,ures would have been the envy of many of Helium's most beautiful women Ah, if she could but endow these with the power to act! Then indeed ht the safety of the panthan be assured; but they were only poor lumps of clay, nor had she the power to quicken them to life Ever must they lie thus until doirl sighed in pity even as she shuddered in disgust as she picked her way over and a the sprawled creatures toward the flier

Quickly she and Ghek s Tara tested the control, raising and lowering the ship a few feet within the walled space It responded perfectly Then she lowered it to the ground again and waited Fro the witnessed her chale antagonist could face hie of position and of the defensive, and he was a lers by coe was in their nuht find a way to coht Could she have seen hiht have been further perturbed, for he took no advantage of ht coolly, but with a savage persistence that bore little semblance to purely defensive action Often he claainst the next behind, and once there lay five dead kaldanes behind hionists They did not know it; these kaldanes that he fought, nor did the girl awaiting hied in a ing the indignities that had been put upon the woht be jeopardizing her safety uselessly, and so he struck down another before hi leaped quickly up the stairhile the leading kaldanes slipped upon the brain-covered floor and stumbled in pursuit

Gahan reached the enclosure twenty paces ahead of theirl "I will ascend the cable"